TV Rumored And Real "Lost Episodes" Of TV Shows

Thanks to the advent of streaming services, pretty much every episode of a TV show you want to see is out there – almost. There are some TV show episodes that were lost or banned outright, and a few may not even exist at all. Urban legend TV episodes like SpongeBob SquarePants's "Squidward's Suicide," and lost episodes of popular TV shows like Doctor Who's "The Power of the Daleks," are some of the most sought-after shows of all time. Who knows – episodes of your favorite television series may have been lost to history.

Some famous “lost episodes” of a television series aren’t actually lost; they were simply shelved by studios for one reason or another. Either the people in charge hated the episode, or circumstances led to the program being shuffled around until it disappeared. Often these lost episodes are considered to be the best episodes of a television show, whether that’s just because people want to see them so badly, or because they’re genuinely good. That's up to you to decide – if you ever get a chance to see these lost episodes.

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SpongeBob SquarePants – "Squidward’s Suicide"

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SpongeBob SquarePants has a devoted following, and for good reason. If you're a fan, you've probably seen every episode of this super-colorful, hyper-cheerful underseas romp – except one.

An Internet rumor alleges there's a lost episode of SpongeBob called “Squidward’s Suicide.” Supposedly, this installment never made it past the final edit, due to its inclusion of scenes of brutal child murder and suicide. The source, who claims to have seen the episode while interning at Nickelodeon, says there was an investigation into the footage, but that nothing came of it.

The Simpsons – "Dead Bart"

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A rumored lost episode of The Simpsons, "Dead Bart," is supposedly based around the idea that Matt Groening has the power to accurately predict the deaths of every guest star from the show. Not only that, but he put that power on full display by animating an episode showing each stars' presumed date of death.

According to this Internet theory, the episode features Bart being sucked out of the window of a plane and the rest of his family mourning for a full year until they’re nothing more than skeletal versions of themselves. When the family visits Bart’s grave, the cemetery where he’s entombed is filled with headstones featuring the death dates of every Simpsons guest that ever was and ever will be.

Tom And Jerry – "Tom's Basement"

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Tom and Jerry had a simple comedic dynamic in their cartoon shorts: Tom was the vicious cat, Jerry the clever mouse. But according to some Internet users, that dynamic turned deadly in the short "Tom's Basement."

In the cartoon, Tom's abusive owner warns the cat to stay away from the basement. In fact, he violently hurts Tom whenever he so much as sleeps next to the door. Jerry begins using this situation to his advantage, fooling the cat into chasing him to the basement and hiding when the owner loses it. The situation reaches a boiling point, and Jerry ends up murdering the owner. Tom and Jerry hide his body in the basement, but Jerry ends up killing the cat, too.

Ed, Edd, N Eddy – "Lost Episode"

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The rumored lost episode of Ed, Edd, n Eddy was supposedly mistakenly aired in 2003. The head writer was sick with the flu, and Cartoon Network had planned on re-airing an old episode. Instead, they showed something viewers reportedly found pretty disturbing.

Allegedly, the characters seem weird, the animation is very choppy, and as the episode goes along it gets even odder. Claymation characters begin to take over the episode until the final three minutes, which simply showed Eddy’s house until the program ended.